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ifsi ur = .. t r .] x : 1 r SJffi . v * */T c Br •\ V .. vf V 3sS «s % » V > jy.r.. ( SOCIAL EVENTS SPRINGTIME IN THE WILDWOOD (By John Milton Samples.) In springtime in the wildwood, I hear the merry notes Of Nature’s feathered songsters * As on the air it floats. The forest buds are swelling • On leafless limbs that show Their eatwhile bending burden Of Winter’s ice and snow. There hosts of white faced daisies Peep out from lifeless leaves; Sweet violets upspringing A web of color weaves. Soft southern winds are stirring From off the Gulf’s expanse, Shifting Springtides northward With waxing sun’s advance. The world again is waking Athrill with newer life; The earth casts off her burden The spell of joy is rife. Immortal signs are showing That death is but a dream That ends in joyous waking Beyond life’s mystic stream. Macon, Ga. Miaa Doris Dinkins to Wed Mr. Stuart W. Kellogg. .< An interesting sociey wedding for January for Now Jersey so ciety will be that of Miss Doris Dinkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Dinkins, of Plymouth atreet, Montclair, to Mr. Stuart Walcott Kellogg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sheffield Kellogg, of Utica, N. Y. "Miss Dinkins has chosen Sat urday, January 17, as the date of the ceremony, which will take place in the evening in St. Luke’s Episcopal church, Montclair, and will be followed by a reception at the Dinkins home. "Miss Dinkins is one of the most popular members of the Montclair younger set and is an active worker of the Junior Lea gue. She has danced at a num ber of amateur entertainments for New Jersey charities. A number of pre-wedding parties will be giv en in her honor.”—New York Tribune. Her mother will be remembered here as Miss Anna Bell Moss, one of the most popular young girls who ever lived in Griffin. After her marriage to Jefferson Dink ier, they lived in Savannah for fifteen years, then moved to Mont- /• V AS jistmas is Millions of Cards Every Year Are m Not Delivered Until After Christmas BUY EARLY MAIL EARLY Our stock is most complete, selected from the lines of six leading manufacturers, and you will find here that very wide selection which is necessary for you to find just the card you want for each individual. Only Four More Days to Select Persona! Greeting Cards For This Christmas. Pickering’s I THE CHRISTMAS STORE . ..___ iii aili^ SOCIAL CALENDAR MONDAY, DECEMBER 1. Mrs. Hardy E. Pickering will entertain at a birthday party at three o’clock in honor of her daughter, Doris. The Parish Guild of St. George’s church will meet at 3 o’clock with Miss Mamie Mills at her home on South Sixth street. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3. The Young Woman's Circle of the First Methodist church will meet with Mrs. Fred Thaxton on Meriwether street at 3 o’clock. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. Mrs. Mathew J. Ware will give a domino party at 3 o’clock in! honor of her guest, Mrs. J. C. Jones, Jr., of Thomaston. The dancing contingent of Grif fin will give a Leap Year ball at the Country Club. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. The weekly tea at the Griffin Country Club. clair, Now Jersey, where they have since resided. Miss Dinkins has a charming ly attractive personality, a bril liant mind, and is a beautiful bru nette, distinguished for her gen uine ability of character and fas cinating nature. She has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Cuba, and her marriage will be of wide spread interest to friends and admirers wherever she is known. Mr. Kellogg is a member of a prominent New York state family and is one of the most popular young business men in Utica, be ing equally popular in the social world. Brilliant Dance Follows Tech Marionettes Saturday. The Woman’s Club sponsored a delightful dance at the Elks’ Club Saturday evening following the performanceof the Tech Marion ettes at the high school auditor ium. The club rooms were attractive ly decorated in autumn leaves and handsome growing plants. The Marionette orchestra fur nished the music and dancing was enjoyed until 12 o’clock. A number of attractive visitors were in Griffin for the dance. Among them were Misses Emily Cope, of Savannah, Miss Eliza Ramey, of Virginia, students at Scott College and the of Miss Agnes Sorrell; Miss Louise Bush, of Barnesville, and Mias Sara'Margaret Sams, of Meridian, Miss, the guest of Miss Sara Sams. The Griffin girls dancing were Misses Elizabeth Norman, Emily Hallyburton, Carlton Jones, Lou ise Gordy, Louise Stallworth, Mar ian Traer, Katherine Sams, Dolly Brooks, Marjorie Hodges, Miriam Johnson, Rosalind Janes, and Nell Bridges. A Among the young men dancing, in addition to the Marionettes, were Marcus Carson, Jr., George Gaissert, Thomas Goddard, Ernest Carlisle, Jr., Frank Pittman, Jr., Franklin Sibley, his guest, B. D. Scott, of Emory University. Otis Barnes, Friar Thompson, Emory Searcy, L. D. Gray, Char les Phillips, III, Ed Bailey, George Carson, Ira Slade, Bruce Mont gomery, Jr., Charlie Phillips and William Searcy, III. A delicious course dinner was served. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Newton J. Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Wheaton, Mrs. Char les G. Mills and Will H. Wheaton, Jr. The chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wirick, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Bussey, their guest, Mrs. Fred Leicester, of Macon, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jones, Mrs. E. H. Hallyburton, Mrs. W. W. Nor man and Mrs. W. E. H. Searcy, Jr. Mr. 'and Mrs. Baxter Hosts At Informal Dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Newton J. Baxter entertained informally at dinner Sunday at their home on South Hill street. Pink and white chrysanthemums were used as decorations through out the beautiful home. A silver basket of white chrys anthemums graced the center of the dining room table. A delicious coure dinner was served. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Newton J. Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Wheaton, Mrs. Char les G. Mills and Will H. Wheaton, Jr. POSSUM HUNT GIVEN FOR COLUMBUS VISITOR Miss Jack Hancox and Max Haisten entertained with a possum hunt Friday night in honor of Miss Runette Knowles, of Colum bus. The hunt was held on the Han cox farm on the Macon road, and three possums were caught. A wiener roast was held on the farm. Among those present were Misses Myrla Bowden, Frances White, Louise McKneely, Louette McKneely, Gwendolyn Thaxton, Nora Ethel English, Oral Simon ton, Marjorie Lynch, Rosalyn Ty ler, Avis Laney; Will Rice, Turk Griffin, Ralph Strickland, Ruel Simonton, Pierce Patterson, Kenon White, Bob White, Ewel Latta, Gene Burnett, Earl Kendrix, Jack Page, Mrs. Simonton, Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Walker, Mr. Hancox. MARRIED AT 13 TO MAN 65. GIRL NOW SEEKS ANNULMENT Scranton, Dec. L—Married in 1922 when she was 13 years old, Christiana Simpson, in divorce court, asked Judge Newcomb to annul her marriage to Benjamin Simpson, 65, of Jessup. • • He abused me. He would hit my head against the wall,” the girl told the Judge. u Will you tell me how a girl of your age was able to get a marriage license here two years ago?” Judge Newcomb asked. u Simpson had me wear a veil that made me look older and I said I was going on 22,” the child wife replied. Simpson did not contest the proceedings. GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Hard Times Force Pretty Countess To Go Work As Lingerie Model * m : •: J. V.i > :• h » * t * & ; -V v.; V >■: Ss V l > ■■ a. 5 ?'; *8 r > >5? ■ X - m •x-j * S:' as A';;,; V 'V \ 1 / Hard times have hit the family of Countess Marguerite voi: Urban, one of Austria’s most beautiful women, and she has gon.’ to work as model in a lingerie shop. Bathing Beauties of U. S. Would Shock Modesty of the Unclothed Aborigines of Pacific Islands Washington, Dec. 1,—"A Chi nese woman would not think of exposing to the public gaze her bound foot, a lady in Yap would never be seen promenading down the mud-hut boulevard of her native village without her woven necklace of hibiscus leaves though her grass skirt was her only gar ment, and the Mohammedan wo man of a few years ago would not be seen without her veil. « Modesty has a georgraphy all its own,” says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Georgraphic Society, in connection with the winter fash ion decrees from Paris. Cover Finger Tips. “Alexander von Humboldt, who traveled extensively over the world known in the eighteenth century, recorded in his travels that some of the Central Asian peoples are reluctant to let any one see their finger tips. tt A traveler who visited the Alaska coast, in the same century, found that native women, after he had persuaded them to remove an ornament which made the lower part of the mouth protrude two or Ostrich Feathers Latest Trimming for Evening Wear ' V ! y.m * tixmoKM L : f N \ \ / Evening costume consisting of gown of rote chiffon trimmed with girdle and hem-line banding of pink ostrich feath ers, and double tiered cape of rose chif fon having full collar of feather* Worn by Mary Astor, playing opposite Reginald Denny in Universal’s produc tion of Harry Leon Wilson’* story, "Oh, Doctor." three inches, were greatly embar rassed. For Ornament. II It seems paradoxical that clothes originated out of the de sire for ornamentations rather than for warmth. Arabs of the hot deserts of Africa are fully swathed in flowing garments which only in part serve as pro tection from the heat while the Patagonians, from the coldest por tion of the South American conti nent wear only the skin of one an imal as a kind of wind-shield. Our word, modesty, came from the Latin modus, meaning meas ure of standard, and the clothing which was customarily worn therefore became our first con ception of what the proper or modest thing to wear. Each of the world’s peoples consequently has its own standards. Paint Served Indians. << The explorers who first same to American shores found that the Carib Indian women, who simply wore embroidered girdles, often appeared without this single garment, but they were never so remiss as to forget to paint their bodies with annatto, a red or yel lowish-red dye. This constituted their idea of womanly modesty. One explore!- reported in his journals that a woman of a tribe in Brazil, whose custom it was to go unclothed, had in some mys terious manner acquired a petti coat which she put on for special occasions, but it seemed to have the effect of making her thorough ly ill at ease. Shock Sensitive Savage. - The Chinese women are among the demure and»modest of the world, but they wear trousers. And, furthermore, some of them would be horrified at the immod esty of a skirt. The beaches of American sea side resorts would pain the fine sensibilities of the Sumatra and Celebes savages who consider it highly improper to expose the knees. In one of the New Hebridos Is lands of the Pacific a married wo man can be modest only by being snaggle-toothed. Part of the wed ding ceremony consists of reliev ing the lady of her two middle in cisors by smashing them with a rock. Must Cover Faces. a Some of the Mohammedan wo men of the Sahara region will tear off their last garment to cover Monday, December 1,1924. WITH WOMEN OF TODAY Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, wife of the noted sportsman and finan cier, paid an income tax last year amounting to more than $200,000. The Japanese geisha girls are taxed higher than any other wom en in that country. Miss Lucille Vaughan, a student the University of Kansas, wears her pet fox around her neck as a fur piece. Queen Mary is making a per sonal effort to bring about a re vival of the lace-making industry in England. their faces upon the approach of a stranger. The demure Breton maiden wears a cunning little close cap because it would be dreadfully unmodest to uncover her hair. M Sturdy German peasant women paddle around their homes and fields in dresses that just escape their knees, but they would be shocked at the idea of wearing a dress which was open at the neck. In the Tonga Islands a man -,vould consider himself thorough^’ unprepared to appear before bis fellow mortals unless he was tat tooed, and the Marquesans follow much the same practice, the amount decoration varying with the rank of the individual, but the legs are always tattooed from an kle to thigh. Grandmother Was There. U Warriors have themselves done in geometrical designs, with squares and inverted triangles on their faces, and the women are ornamented in patterns which re semble fine lace work. Some of them wear loin cloths and girdles of tapa cloth, a fabric made from the bark of the breadfruit tree. U An American lady of 1924 is not self-conscious at exposing hei* arms and shoulders in the evening but she would be shocked at wear ing a decollette gown to break fast or luncheon, Our demure grandmothers, who represent to us the personifications of modes ty, wore their sleeves and neck less dresses all day. W il Would you marry a man whose wife had divorced him ? ft “I might,” answered Miss Cay enne. t« He may have had the perience that would make him easier to get rid of if we didn’t agree. n Practice Economy in the Kitchen—Use CALUMET THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER It Lasts Longer—Goes Farther— Makes Better Biscuits SALES *‘/i TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND HIGH GRADE DIAMONDS —AT— REASONABLE PRICES CAN ARRANGE TERMS t C. N. WHITMIRE JEWELER 109 W. Solomon St. / SIMPLE LINES ADD DISTINCTION COAT TO WINTER I ■; mm , jA Very simple iines and plain materia! are used in this hand some winter coat which relies for its distinction oh the collar and front facing of Hudson seal fus.; DEMENTED WOMAN FOUND UNDER PILE OF U. S. GREENBACKS New York, Dec. 1.—A middle aged woman of apparent refinement was held in a Brooklyn hospital Saturday after being found by a policeman lying face upward in a field under a $700 pile of $1 and $5 bank notes, Her chest was further protected against the cold by $700 worth of Liberty bonds and a bank book showing deposits of $1,200 in the name of Minnie Griffin. Tanganyika Territory has a hip popotamus plague, the huge beasts having multiplied so rapid i ly that thousands are to be seen inear J the Rufijl river. All business books in Mexico j !guage must be kept in the Spanish lan and failure to comply with the law results in heavy fines.